Belgium's fragmented vaccination policy creates regional disparities, health insurers warn

In Belgium, the question of who is responsible for protecting the most vulnerable has no clean answer — and that ambiguity is measurable in lives left exposed. The country's fragmented division of vaccination duties between federal and regional authorities has produced a patchwork of immunization coverage so uneven that where a senior citizen lives now determines, in meaningful ways, how well they are shielded from preventable disease. Health insurance funds have named the failure plainly and offered a path forward, but the remedy requires something Belgium's governance has long struggled to p